…with lunar and Mars regolith simulants.
If Congress and NASA were serious about opening space to humanity, this is the sort of thing that NASA would be spending more money on, instead of a monster rocket.
[Update a while later]
Related, I think: Questions that the Trump transition team asked NASA.
I’d like to attend this event. Maybe we’ll be through bathroom-renovation hell by then.
Falcon Heavy is getting ready for its hot-fire test in Texas, and LC-40 is getting back in business after the boo boo last fall.
…results in the creation of all four DNA bases. This seems much more significant than Miller-Urey.
If, like me, you couldn’t make it to Colorado Springs last week, Calla Cofield has highlights.
[Noon update]
Valerie Insinna has the story on Tory’s choice in engines. Aerojet Rocketdyne has to have fingers crossed in the hope that BE-4 testing doesn’t go well.
Dick Eagleson has some interesting speculation.
Meanwhile, is the small-sat launch industry going to be Amazoned?
Bob Zimmerman has some thoughts on the gas giant.
Coyote is really pushing this concept. Now he’s got an op-ed at Aviation Week.
This looks like an interesting new book